Phonetic Variation in the Traditional English Dialects
Phonetic Variation in the Traditional English Dialects
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传统英语方言的语音变化
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2007
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R. Shackleton
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R. Shackleton
本文通过对传统英语方言语音数据的分析，说明了各种定量技术的实用性。该技术产生的英语地方之间的语音使用的变化的措施，确定方言地区的集群与相对相似的使用模式的地方，区分区域的相对均匀的过渡区有很大的变化，并确定区域连贯的功能，可用于区分一些方言地区。相互补充，技术提供了一个合理的客观的方法，至少一些传统的英语方言地区的基础上的特点进行分类。结果在很大程度上证实了文献中的标准介绍，但在区域边界的位置和区域特征的识别方面存在差异，以及在将这些系统要素置于基本上连续且往往随机变化的更广泛背景下方面存在差异。
This article illustrates the utility of a variety of quantitative techniques by applying them to phonetic data from the traditional English dialects. The techniques yield measures of variation in phonetic usage among English localities, identify dialect regions as clusters of localities with relatively similar patterns of usage, distinguish regions of relative uniformity from transitional zones with substantially greater variation, and identify regionally coherent groups of features that can be used to distinguish some dialect regions. Complementing each other, the techniques provide a reasonably objective method for classifying at least some traditional English dialect regions on the basis of characteristic features. The results largely corroborate standard presentations in the literature but differ in the placement of regional boundaries and identification of regional features, as well as in placing those systemic elements in a broader context of largely continuous and often random variation.